Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Lincoln, IL

Issued

Mar 28, 1997, 5:35 PM CST (23:35 UTC)

Expired

Mar 28, 1997, 6:15 PM CST

In force

40 min

Issued by

NWS Lincoln, IL

Area

Whole counties

County DeWitt County, IL

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...RETRANSMISSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
535 PM CST FRI MAR 28 1997
 
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  DEWITT COUNTY -- CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 615 PM CST

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM:

    LANE
    DE WITT
    FARMER CITY

* AT 535 PM CST LINCOLN DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES NORTH OF DECATUR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40
  MPH.

TAKE SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND
STAY OFF TELEPHONES. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE
TORNADOES AT ANY TIME.

GEELHART

NWS Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 28, 1:58 PM CST, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
200 PM CST FRI MAR 28 1997

MDLS IN GOOD AGREEMENT W/ SYS ROTATING INTO IL TON.  BEST DYNAMICS AS
WELL AS MOIST CONVRG...UP LVL DVRG WL BE OVR SRN IL TO INCLUDE PORTIONS
OF SE AND EC IL THIS EVE AND TON.  STORMS HAVE ALREADY DVLPD S AND SW
OF STL ALONG SFC THERMAL RDG AND NOW OF 55 DWPTS ENDING AT STL.  RWS
AND TSTMS WL DVLP THIS AFTN AND CONT THIS EVE.  NRN CNTIES COULD STILL
SEE SOME THUNDER PUT JUST THIS EVE...ENDING EARLY.  FRNT SHOULD PUSH
THROUGH PIA BY 00Z AND SPI BY 01Z...LIMITING THE DURATION OF
CONVECTION.  SOME -RA IS PSBL BEHIND FRNT BUT IT TOO WONT LAST LONG.
MOIST WL STICK AROUND BEHIND FRNT W/ SOME CAA.  SKIES SHOULD BRK OUT
TOM AND BRNG SEASONABLE CONDS FOR THE BEGINNING OF THE HOLIDAY WEEK.

MDLS SIM W/ TEMPS TON AND TOM...NO REASON TO DIFFER.

PIA   42/5  6(EARLY)0
SPI   43/5  7(EARLY)0
DEC   42/5  80
CMI   44/5  +0
LWV   46/5  +0

AUTEN

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.